Erenburg, Ilia; Grossman, Vasilii

Chernaia Kniga [in Two Volumes] (the Black Book)

Zaporozhe, Interbuk, 1991. Uniform edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 3-261, [11] and [3], 4-244, [12] respectively; pictorial leatherette in blue and black, decorated in white; illustrated with photographs; minor age-toning and wear; in near fine condition. "The Black Book of Soviet Jewry," or just "The Black Book" was first written in 1944 by revolutionary, journalist, and historian Ilia Erenburg (1891 - 1967) and author and journalist Vasilii Grossman (1905 - 1964), in collaboration with the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and members of the American Jewish community - to document antisemitic crimes of the Holocaust. The book was denounced as anti-Soviet and banned from publication in Russia. The authors recreated it in Yiddish, copies of the manuscript were smuggled to the US, Israel, and Romania, and parts of it published. A complete Russian-language edition was published for the first time in 1980 in Jerusalem and in 1991 in Ukraine. Near fine .

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Book number: 003021

Catalogue: Holocaust

Keywords: Holocaust

Rullman, Hans Peter

Victim of the Holocaust

Newark, NJ, Unchain, 1987. First English translation, abridged and edited from the German; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 1-80; glossy, pictorial wraps in white, black, and red; illustrated with sketches and facsimile documents; minor wear and age-toning to edges and margins, in about near fine condition. The book describes the story and trial of John Demjanjuk (Ivan Demianiuk) (1920 - 2012) - Ukrainian-American, who in the 1970s and 1980s, was, allegedly, wrongly accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" - an infamous watchman at the Treblinka Extermination Camp, lost his US citizenship, was extradited to Israel to face trial, was acquitted, returned to the US, only to be extradited again for another trial, this time in Germany. Near fine .

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Book number: 002837

Catalogue: Holocaust

Keywords: Holocaust, Ukraine